Hey Ma, I’m On TV!

I’ve known Adam for a long time, even before he joined Microsoft. I
think we met (in person) at Tech-Ed 2003.

In any case, we talk a bit about ASP.NET MVC and Preview 4, all the
while I tried very hard not to put my foot in my mouth. At the end there
are some outtakes of me impersonating Scott Hanselman doing an
impersonation of Sean Conery. That wasn’t to make fun of Scott, but
totally out of love and respect. ;)

On Gaming

In the interview, I mentioned that I used to work at a skill gaming
company called SkillJam which is no longer around. We had a tournament
engine that allowed users to play games of skill for money. I worked on
the back-end technologies such as our mobile gaming
infrastructure
which was well reviewed by
GameSpot.

SkillJam is no longer around as it was bought by FUN
Technologies (yes,
I literally worked for “Fun” back then) and subsumed into World
Winner.

In any case, one of the sharpest coworkers that I worked with there went
out on his own to start a new game development company called
CasualCafe. This
guy was the one who lived in the world of writing low-level C++ code,
anti-cheat techniques, and game engines. If you are into the genre of
“Casual Games” (such as Bejewelled, Solitaire, etc…) be sure to check it
out.

Books on My Shelf

Via Twitter, James Avery was more
interested in the books on my shelf than what I was saying (I don’t
blame him). In case you were wondering, here’s a partial list: